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Clinton Loyalist: Stop ‘Fatal Attraction’ Mentions

By Patrick Healy August 25, 2008 4:15 pmAugust 25, 2008 4:15 pm

DENVER – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has been called a lot of things during the 2008 presidential campaign, but likening her to the psychotic, bunny-killing Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) from “Fatal Attraction” is what really sets off her supporters.

The Republican political consultant Alex Castellanos did just that on CNN, saying that Mrs. Clinton looms over Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic convention “like Glenn Close with a knife” in “Fatal Attraction.”

Howard Wolfson, formerly the communications director of the Clinton presidential campaign, called out Mr. Castellanos, a former adviser to Mitt Romney’s campaign, on his blog, Gotham Acme. “Enough!” Mr. Wolfson says, for starters.

Hillary Clinton supporters have gotten used to this line of attack. It shows no respect for her and even less for her supporters. Nearly eighteen million Democrats voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries and we’ve been offered nothing but this kind of invective from day one. It is clear the party and the presumptive nominee feel they can prevail without us. I doubt it.

Castellanos is not doing his candidate a favor with this reprehensible analogy. Hillary has come to terms, politely and publicly, with her loss, and lest they want a full-blown exodus by her supporters from the McCain camp, they need to stop it. The latest statistics show an 11% jump to McCain from her allies.

I am sure McCain will disavow Castellanos’ remarks promptly. In the same fashion, Obama’s camp will come to her defense in this comical tug-of-war with her supporters.

Hel -lo-oo? Anyone notice that the comparison is sexist and misogynist?

Not to mention inapposite. The Glenn Close character was a single woman who had a brief fling with the married Michael Douglas character, and then refused to accept the old “He’s Just Not that Into You.” She took her expressions of dissatisfaction at her treatment by Douglas to the bathetic extremes of boiling his kids’ pet bunny and repeatedly hitting “redial” on her phone while mascara-stained tears streamed down her face.

How exactly is this supposed to connect up to Clinton’s loss in the primaries? It was the Democratic voters, after all, who were supposedly responsible for that “rejection.” Oh, I see, they’re both women, too old, and we don’t like them!

It’s not Hillary Clinton that is acting like a dangerously irrational lunatic a la Alex Forrest, it is the petty, vindictive former Clinton supporters who are now jeopardizing everything that she worked for by abandoning the Democratic Party and the policies that it represents.

Hillary knows that the issues at stake are far more important than any one person, including herself, but the rabid, irrational former supporters who now want to destroy everything that she worked for by supporting McCain still don’t get it.

Nothing could be more irrational and ludicrous than a former Hillary supporter throwing their support to John McCain, who has an absolutely abysmal record on every women’s issue from reproductive choice, to equal pay, to women’s healthcare funding.

It is completely insane for a former Hillary supporter not to support the candidate who Hillary herself describes as “vastly” closer on the important issues at stake, Barack Obama.

“Nearly eighteen million Democrats voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries and we’ve been offered nothing but this kind of invective from day one. ”

I don’t think that’s true. The invective built up gradually, as Hillary gradually got crazier and more spiteful.

And the invective has never been aimed at the 18 million Hillary supporters; it’s always been aimed directly at the small number of zealots who rabidly support Hillary (and denounce all competitors) in the face of all evidence, reasonable argument, or logic.

My mom is a Hilary supporter. She is NOT one of these screaming harpies who draws the fierce invective. There’s a big difference.

The cat is out the bag. And if clinton loyalist don’t see the obvious attempt by the republicans to splinter the democrats, then they we’re not true democrats to begin with or worse. It’s time for history to play it’s course and take back, fix up and get this country back to where it was before cheney and bush destroyed it.

This should be proof positive, coupled with McCain’s smarmy new ads and Carly Fiorina’s faux indignation, that McCain and Co. care about women for one thing – their votes. They have no interest in furthering the causes that impact women today.

While Hillary Clinton is supposedly working to encourage party unity, the media (John King on CNN Sunday) has finally revealed that she (or more likely Bill) has been using the Clinton attack team (slick Jimmie Carville and little Paulie Begala) to tell her supporters that the Clintons are being “disrespected” by the Obama team.

Each incident (such as the most recent one, where the team announced that the Clintons were not consulted on Obama’s VP choice) becomes a new reason for Hillary’s supporters to feel offended and justified in not supporting the candidate that shares their goals on all the key issues.

When will the media expose this foolishness for what it is?The Clintons are not giving up on getting back into the White House and Hillary’s supporters will apparently cut off their nose to spite their face.

What a strange way to present this “news.” Instead of reporting that a Republican compared Clinton to Alex Forrest from Fatal Attraction, the news bit focuses more on Clinton’s staffer’s response to such “mentions” (plural), de-emphasizing the Republican instigator and implying that this comparison is being made by others as well. It’s then only a matter of quick reading and predisposition against Obama for some readers to impute the comparison to Obama and his supporters, as we see in some of the comments above.

How sexist! And to think Hillary supporters are considering voting for McCain when such sexist remarks are coming from his camp? What really does that tell you about the sense and integrity of the American public?

Where is maturity when it really should count? This is quite appalling to say the least.

Why should it surprise anyone that John McCain and the Republicans are running a campaign based on hate speech? They are trying to make their misogyny and racism respectable. Decent people must speak out.

The Repugnacans have been calling Hillary much much worse than this for years. It’s almost as comical to see McCain’s completely disingenuous overtures to the Hillary supporters (nevermind his own Hillary bashing in the Rep. primary debates), as it is to see the Hillary supporters threaten to vote for the people responsible for the most vile, reprehensible attacks on her throughout her public life. If you listen, you can hear Limbaugh laughing at all the “femi-nazis” who are rushing to support his good buddy McCain.

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